Externalities and public expenditure theory Book

Foreword xi 1.Public Services and Collective Action The Bases for Collective Action 3
The Evaluation of Public Services (Francesco Forte and James M. Buchanan) 39
‘‘La scienza delle .nanze’’: The Italian Tradition in Fiscal Theory 59 2.Externalities Externality (James M. Buchanan and Wm. Craig Stubblebine) 109
Public and Private Interaction under Reciprocal Externality (James M. Buchanan and Gordon Tullock) 126
External Diseconomies in Competitive Supply (Charles J. Goetz and James M. Buchanan )156
External Diseconomies, Corrective Taxes, and Market Structure 169
The Institutional Structure of Externality 174 3.Clubs and Joint Supply An Economic Theory of Clubs 193
Joint Supply, Externality, and Optimality 210 4.Public Goods Theory Cooperation and Conflict in Public-Goods Interaction 227
A Note on Public Goods Supply (James M. Buchanan and Milton Z. Kafoglis) 244
Public Goods in Theory and Practice: A Note on the Minasian-Samuelson Discussion 259
Breton and Weldon on Public Goods 265
Convexity Constraints in Public Goods Theory (James M. Buchanan and António S. Pinto Barbosa )271
Public Goods and Natural Liberty 282 5.Applications —City, Health, and Social Security Public Goods and Public Bads 301
Principles of Urban Fiscal Strategy 321
The Inconsistencies of the National Health Service 340
Technological Determinism Despite the Reality of Scarcity: A Neglected Element in the Theory of Spending for Medical and Health Care 361
The Budgetary Politics of Social Security 376
Social Security Survival: A Public-Choice Perspective 390
Social Insurance in a Growing Economy: A Proposal for Radical Reform 407
Commentary 421 6.Distributive Norms and Collective Action What Kind of Redistribution Do We Want? 427
Distributive and Redistributive Norms: A Note of Clarification 434
Government Transfer Spending 440
Who Should Pay for Common-Access Facilities? 460
Who Should Distribute What in a Federal System? 471 Name Index 491 Subject Index 495